Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-12
each other in the face With some distrust
and uneasipess.
"what injury mightsuch an unwise pub
licatiOn as this do?

attacked by twice their number. The
Lieutenant Colonel of the attacked regi-
ment stopped not on the order Of his
going but at the first shot fled
in wild fright and did not
stop till he reached town
a dozen miles away in another State, where
the wings of his Imagination caused him to
tell the story that his entire regiment was
cut to pieces, taken prisoners, or driven
into the river and drowned but the Colo
mel. A man with heart OF q hero, the
courage of lion, the discretiOng of Wei
lington, and the magnetism of BOnaparte,
one who had smelled powder in the Mexi-
can war, stepped before his men and rallied
them-got them to fightiDg-and when the
shot from the enemy's guns fell at his feet,
kicked il cOntemptuously, and finally led
charge that put the foe to ignOminiOus
flight.
AN APPEAL.
"Who shall say what single false idea
may do to demoralize noble band ofmen.
/ hope that, if in this case there is any
danger of q decentralization, the public
courage into heroic band of men and start
movement for the consideration OF the
Republicans of this assembly in their in
dividual capacity. Here we may well
pause for moment considering the posi-
tion in which we are placed, the tension, so
to speak, upon us all Well may we look
each other in the face and in view of all
these circumstances, remembering all this
uproar, hesitate. Every man may at times
doubt himself. In that Olden time when
the twelve sat around the Lord and he
would speak of the betrayer, each would
ask: Master is it I% But undertake
to say and declare that ut no time will any
Republican falter in his duty here in this
election or attempt at an election. We
are united and will remain so. At any
time that forty-one votes will elect
q Republican or Greenback-LabOr
candidate and we are all present here, we
will give them. If you, brother Demo-
Gratis, do not believe it, try u.s. Give US
the chance There may be
POSSIBILITY OF A BOLTER
from our caucus. l do not believe there
is. / do not know who he is / am sure
there is none, and if there is any Republi-
can here who desires to contradict what |
say about our united front, desire him
to rise in his seat There is none, no not
one.
"Mr. President, need not refer to the
idea that after having labored for weeks to
defeat the Democratic caucus nominee We
should now turn in and elect him. Elect
him, for sOoth, and why? So that i'll 1888
we shall not have the wealth of two Dem
ocratic candidates for United States Senator
and the money OF the National Democratic
Executive Committee as an obstruction
which we cannot climb. This is as though
two athletic burglars were engaged in COM
bat in my house. l separate them on the
theory that if they murder each other they
will return in the future and rob me OF my
accumulated wealth.
II THE DEMOCRATS WANT
to apply the soothing aud fascinating razor
10 each others thrOats let them do it. lfl
they want to protract this fight oyer into
the next campaign let them do so, and my |
word for it the Republican party will |
march on to victory over their prOstrate
forms.
again the Republicans are to be pun
ished by the election of free trade Demo- |
crat if they don't elect the Democratic
nominee of the caucus. What transpar-
ent folly. Settle your own quarrels, gen
tlemen. Why should we be punished
for not electing a man for you? You have
the majority. 1t is your duty, not ours,
to elect. Why shall we withdraw our
candidate? He is in the lead. Besides, if
the Democratic caucus and its nominee
hate any class of. people with an able
bodied, alert, undying uncOmprOmising
hate it must be some people other than
Republicans.
COME OFF, MR.. MORRIS.
"Now for another branch of this sub
iect. Another publication in this State
than those to which have referred, in
criticising the eloquent effort of the dele
gate from Jefferson (Mr. Lucas), on the
election of United States Senator, begs
the question underlying this whole matter
by saying that some of the methods of the
Standard Oil Company are TO be depre-
Gated, but holds that the Democratic eau
Gus nominee is not responsible for this.
assert here that neither the |
delegate from Jefferson, nor any one else
on his side of the House, reached the depths
or sealed the heights TO their utmost, in
volyed in this matter Of corruption and
debauchery of the rights of the voters of
this State. Things of which the Standard |
Oil Company might well be ashamed have
occurred in connection with elections in |
this State.
CHESTNUT.
''The methods resorted to elect Demo- |
cratic members of this Legislature in some |
parts of the State are unworthy of the five |
l., Sanofnr
into the county two days before the Dem
Ocratic convention, and not only chose the
nominee of the convention for the House OF
Delegates, but drove of all opposition and
had his choice named by acclamatiOn. The |
methods resorted to to secure the election OF
this nominee were the most desperate ever |
known in the history of the county and if
hundreds Of honest men had not risen in
their wrath and worked against this in
famous scheme from daylight 10 dark on |
election day, it wovld have been success
full. In the counties of the Fourth and |
Fifth Senatorial districts two-dOllar bills
for the purposes of corrupting voters tloated
around like the bloom from the silver pop |
lar, when the tree is in all its glory. This
is true
IN A MODIFIED SENSE
at any rate, unless reputable men in the
counties of Wood, Writ, Jackson and 9th
ers are arrant liars. l charge here that for
q period of ten years no Democratic Con
gressional convention was held at the old |
First district, where whisky did nos tiowi
shOe-mouth deep, so to speak, and 1T was
free, where railroad passes and dining
halls were not free as air to
delegates. No Democratic State
convention has been held in this State for
years, where free passes could not be had
for the asking, for those who would vote
for certain candidates for nomination.
Their methods OF corruption have been
thrown in the lead at elections. No cleo
ton for United States Senator, with pOssl-
bly, one exception, has been held IN this
State for sixteen years where free CHAM
payne, free hotels, free steamboat rides,
free jewelry, free gold headed canes, free
pianos, could not be had for the taking. |